Queensboro Bridge Over Blackwell's Island, East River, New York. (2back) [h0166ac2]

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Title	Queensboro Bridge Over Blackwell's Island, East River, New York. (2back) [h0166ac2]
Creator	© American Studio (indicated on front only)
Description--Back	Caption on original reads: "QUEENSBORO BRIDGE, OVER BLACKWELL'S ISLAND, EAST RIVER, NEW YORK. Blackwell's Island Bridge extends over the East River from E. 59th Street and 2nd Ave., Manhattan, to Jane and Academy Streets, Long Island City. It is a great cantilever structure, costing $25,000,000, and rests on six masonry piers. It is 7636 feet long, west span 1182, clear height over channels 135 feet, height of Island tower 324 feet, width 86 feet, two decks with 53 foot road."; Postal data: posted, postmarked [flag postmark] (EAST ORANGE, N.J., 8-18? 1919?) [indiscernible date and time], stamp; Postcard type: divided back [arrow dividing back of card] (This space for the message); Printing information: card number (N.Y. 346); Logo (POST CARD) in stylized lettering; Written message [written sideways] (If I don't come home tomorrow I will phone at mid-night. Love Dales F.); Addressee (Mrs. Fred Dales, 13 Waverly Place, Schenectady, N.Y.).
Stamps	George Washington green one cent stamp in profile; crooked. Date of issue:1912.
Coverage--geographic	New York, New York
Date Original	1919?
Publisher	Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Language	eng
Source Height	653
Source Width	1000
Source	Waterways Post Card Collection of Thomas T. Surprenant: Hudson River
Type	Text; Image
Digitization Specifications	Archive masters were scanned at 600 ppi, 24 bit color using a Canon CanoScan 8800F and SilverFast Ai scanning software and saved as uncompressed TIFFs using Photoshop CS4 and Mac OS 10.5. Derivative access files were saved as medium quality JPEGs, 150dpi, 1000 pixels on the long dimension. Thumbnails were generated automatically by CONTENTdm.
Date Digital	2009-10-06
Resource Identifier	h0166ac2.jpg
Format	Image
Format [Medium]	Postcards
File Size	410648 Bytes
Checksum	1982255404
Height (of Digital image)	3.5"
Width (of Digital Image)	5.5"
Color Space	sRGB
Rights Management	Contact Thomas T. Surprenant, ebeltoms@nyc.rr.com
Contributing Institution	Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Digitization Team	GSLIS 757, Digital Imaging, Fall 2009: Jennifer Berry, Basha Starr
OCLC number	682039791

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Queensboro Bridge Over Blackwell's Island, East River, New York. (2back) [h0166ac2]

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